Posts tagged with ‘parachute’

  • This Day in History October 22, 1797

    By Ruth on October 22, 2013
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    I was completely amazed concerning today’s feature.  It was on this date in 1797, that Andrew Garnerin made the first recorded parachute jump without a rigid frame.  He jumped from a hot air balloon as high as 8000 feet in the air.  He was the only also the inventor of the air vent in a parachute which helped to reduce […]